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Blastodacna (undescribed species) - Blastodacna - female
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Blastodacna (undescribed species) - Blastodacna - Female
Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont, USA
May 19, 2020
moth genitalia
Dissected by Terry Harrison - "It has a short, funnel-shaped base of the ductus, followed by an incomplete sclerotized ring, and a single crescent-shaped signum near the anterior end of the corpus. This is pretty much the same as what I have seen in other Blastodacna spp."

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Contributed by JoAnneRusso on 24 March, 2022 - 1:54pm

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